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An academic who studies affirmative action filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the University of California system, seeking access to a trove of records that he says could reveal whether the system defied state law by surreptitiously reintroducing race as a factor in admissions.

The lawsuit comes just two weeks after the end of a federal trial examining whether Harvard discriminates against Asian-American applicants. The California suit has clear echoes of that case, and it may signal the opening of a Pandora’s box of similar data requests at universities across the country, as opponents of race-conscious admissions seek ammunition for their cause.

“To me, this has always been a civil rights issue,” Richard Sander, the academic who is bringing the suit, said in an interview on Wednesday. “If you cut off the data, you’re saying we don’t think the public has a right to examine any of the factors determining admission or success at the university.” …

Unlike Harvard, which makes no secret of its race-conscious admissions but says it does not discriminate,

Because that’s perfectly logical.

the nine undergraduate colleges that make up the University of California are prohibited by state law from even considering the race or ethnicity of applicants. California has banned affirmative action in colleges and universities since 1996.

Professor Sander, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, is a prominent proponent of the contentious “mismatch” theory, which holds that students who receive substantial admissions preferences — some racial minorities, for instance, but also so-called legacy applicants and athletes — often flounder and fail, whereas they would flourish if they went to universities to which they would be better matched.

He said that he believed the damage was greatest when universities weighed race heavily over other factors and that he was not opposed to the use of slight racial preferences.

But Professor Sander said he also believed that researchers and universities were too focused on admissions data when analyzing campus diversity. They should also be looking at outcomes data, he said, which includes majors, grades, how long it took students to graduate, whether they went to graduate or professional school and even their earnings after graduation.

That is the type of data Professor Sander is seeking in his lawsuit. He said he had received several years’ worth of similar data from the University of California in 2008, and found that even though the number of black and Hispanic students admitted to Berkeley and U.C.L.A. fell after the affirmative action ban the drop was more than offset by increases in enrollment at other campuses and increases in graduation rates. More talented students applied to the top schools, he said, while others began at less elite campuses and transferred up.

For the past year, he said, the university system has blocked his public records requests for data from the past decade so he can update his studies, even though he has offered to pay for it himself.

Professor Sander said he suspected that the system, which serves hundreds of thousands of students, reacted to public pressure over declining African-American enrollment by secretly reintroducing race-conscious admissions. That led to a sharp increase in enrollment for black and Hispanic students from California high schools from 2006 to 2013, he said, and fewer Asian-American and white students.

A spokeswoman for the California system, Dianne Klein, said on Wednesday that the university system did not consider race in its admissions process. “Neither race, ethnicity nor gender factor into U.C.’s holistic admissions policy,” she said.

Ms. Klein added that to comply with the request for the type of data Professor Sander wants, the university system would have to create a customized database. Public records law does not require it to do that, she said.

Q. Is the University of California violating the California constitution?

A. It’s a secret.

Q. It’s not supposed to be a secret.

A. Yeah, well, we’d have to write some code to let you look at the data that would tell whether we are violating the state constitution, so, checkmate, you racist!

Which is longer, the California constitution or the Oxford English Dictionary?

For whatever reason, every initiative makes every piddly statute law change an amendment to the constitution. You can’t bind the hands of a future parliament, but you can slow them down a bit, or at least try.

All the amendments of the US Constitution, good or bad, deal with genuine constitutional issues, the one exception being the Eighteenth.

A spokeswoman for the California system, Dianne Klein, said on Wednesday that the university system did not consider race in its admissions process. “Neither race, ethnicity nor gender factor into U.C.’s holistic admissions policy,” she said.

>>Ms. Klein added that to comply with the request for the type of data Professor Sander wants, the university system would have to create a customized database. Public records law does not require it to do that, she said.

Nobody in UC administration can figure out how to do a simple data dump into CSV files? Or if that is too complicated just dump the data into plain text files. Just give the job to some work study kid who has taken programming 101. I’m sure that professor Sander would be happy with a simple data dump. He can figure out how to use it.

… the university system has blocked his public records requests for data from the past decade so he can update his studies, even though he has offered to pay for it himself.

Ms. Klein added that to comply with the request for the type of data Professor Sander wants, the university system would have to create a customized database. Public records law does not require it to do that, she said.

So in other words, they just don’t want to give him the data.

If UC uses admissions algorithms and factors that are not race, but which are iteratively A-B tested to produce more black and Hispanic admittees, and if this is done explicitly and overtly, and is documented in memos and e-mails, as I suspect it is, it seems indistinguishable from using race as a factor. It’s like what the FBI calls “parallel construction,” using illegal 4th Amendment violations to uncover something, and then reverse engineering another fake way that they could have, but didn’t, use to discover the same information legally, essentially evidence laundering, and putting that fake explanation in court documents.

Somewhere around ’05 the WSJ had a front page story about a Vietnamese guy from Garden Grove who was denied admission to UCLA despite having a gpa of 4+ and a 1560 SAT. Sure woukd like to see some admissions people grilled about that one.

A ‘War on Christmas’? Jews who leave the house in December would beg to differ.
Liberals can be just as bad as their conservative counterparts when it comes to enforcing an oppressive Christmas climate.

By Lux Alptraum

I have never been a fan of Christmas.

As a young Jewish child, I wrote a letter to my local newspaper arguing that Christmas trees in public schools were a violation of the separation of church and state. In the fifth grade, when Santa hats were all the rage among my classmates, I showed up to school wearing a yarmulke in an act of protest. In my adult years, I’ve joking referred to myself as a “one woman War on Christmas”; yes, I am the coworker who will loudly complain about your decision to blare “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” at your desk.

I should note that it is not the celebration of Christmas, per se, with which I take issue. Spending time with loved ones and exchanging gifts are lovely traditions, and while many of the particular traditions of Christmas are not quite to my taste, I’m thrilled to know they give others a great deal of joy. And, as someone who comes from a mixed-faith heritage, I have many relatives for whom Christmas is deeply meaningful and important. (Up until my grandmother died, most of my December 25s were spent at her house, opening presents around her tree — a tradition I remember quite fondly.)

Wow, she’s thrilled that over 98% of Americans love Christmas, she just wishes you’d keep all the jolliness and good will to all men inside your house, with just your nuclear family please. It’s so great Ms Alptraum is gracious to allow the goyim, including her own family, that privilege. She reminds me of the old joke about a child being asked about his ethnicity saying “I’m half Jewish and half nothing”.

It would be bad enough if this aggressive Christmas assault were purely the domain of the rabid right wing; if the only people I needed to worry about fending off were the types who see cries of “Happy Holidays” as an affront to their religious freedom, or the switch from red to green holiday cups as some sign of an Islamic agenda. But the truth is that liberals — even ones who ostensibly embrace religious diversity — can be just as bad as their conservative counterparts when it comes to enforcing the oppressive Christmas climate.

She openly wants to restrict (Even the secular) celebration of Christmas but claims this isn’t an attempt to restrict the religious freedoms of Christians. Some ads on TV and completely secular decorations in public places moderns increasingly avoid constitutes an ‘oppressive Christmas climate’.

Jesus, Christmas has been completely terraformed to allow non-Christians to celebrate it (As almost all atheists without Jewish ancestry do readily) like Easter. If Ms Alptraum finds it oppressive that’s her fault and her choice. But it’s the tone and confidence she writes it in, they really don’t see the resentment they’re building.

The UC’s refusal to produce the data tells you everything you need to know about what it will show.

The next best thing to an outright ban on AA would be a requirement of transparency so that the culture and market can accurately value the relative difference between an AA degree and a Merit-based Degree at each school.

This is a kabuki dance. We all know how it’ll go. If the data show that blacks are admitted at lower rates than others, then the data prove the admissions system is racist. If the data show that blacks graduate at lower rates than others, then the data prove the grading system is racist.

Let us take it a step further. If the data show that black UC graduates earn less than others, then the data prove the world is racist. Which everyone who matters already knows.

A spokeswoman for the California system, Dianne Klein, said on Wednesday that the university system did not consider race in its admissions process. “Neither race, ethnicity nor gender factor into U.C.’s holistic admissions policy,” she said.

Why would anybody even want to analyze data relating race to college admissions? First of all, it’s of no legitimate scientific interest whatsoever. Second, we already know what the results would be — that colleges are doing nothing illegal at all. Third, there’s no such thing as race anyway, so the results would be utterly meaningless (aside from showing exactly what we would hope they would show), therefore the study wouldn’t have any construct validity in the first place. Finally, if the results were made public, they would only be misinterpreted by racists to make dubious statistical conclusions to advance some evil agenda, a social harm which would far outweigh the good of expanding our knowledge, and, again, it wouldn’t even be expanding our knowledge because we already know there’s nothing interesting to find.

Although these arguments are bulletproof, I suspect a handful of readers will still not be persuaded. If only there were some other issue I could use as a well-established precedent to convince them.

If UC uses admissions algorithms and factors that are not race, but which are iteratively A-B tested to produce more black and Hispanic admittees, and if this is done explicitly and overtly, and is documented in memos and e-mails, as I suspect it is, it seems indistinguishable from using race as a factor.

It’s documented and done openly because it’s presumably legal to intentionally reduce disparate impact (e.g., of the SAT on blacks and Hispanics) by finding disparate impact factors that have a smaller effect in the opposite direction. The point of disparate impact analysis is to consider the total result of the selection process, not the effect of every single factor in isolation, and in that respect the “parallel construction” would be making things more legal rather than less.

At some point AA will disappear among private universities, not because of outside pressure or court rulings, but because the universities will want it to disappear. When America is majority nonwhite, proportional representation will mean that universities will need to be majority nonwhite. Neither whites, nor non-whites, want to go to a majority nonwhite school, and any school that uses AA to recruit a student body that is majority nonwhite will be shooting itself in the foot (or perhaps head). Mark my words, the Hispanic/African American % is going to stay constant at private schools even as their % of the population climbs; the universities will be taking a more and more elite slice of Hispanics and blacks, and at some point they may actually become remotely qualified.

Public universities will be a whole different story since they are controlled by the voters.

Steve has been somewhat deferential to private school admissions committees, making the point that elite colleges are probably pretty good at picking classes, given that they have maintained their elite status for years, and the alumni donations keep rolling in. But…alumni donations today are the people who were admitted 30 years ago. 30 years ago the admissions committees definitely knew what they were doing. Do they still? I’m not sure, and we won’t know for another 30 years. Even if they are doing the same things today that the committees were doing 30 years ago, times change and that formula might not work any more. My personal observation is that recent graduates seem to have very little loyalty or affection for their alma maters, and I don’t see they donating or otherwise supporting these schools like the last generation did. This is doubly or triply true for white males. Who historically at least have been the big givers.

Wasn’t Alabama one of the states that required blacks to recite the US Constitution in order to vote? Requiring them to recite the state constitution would violate the Bill of Rights– specifically, the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.

By the way, California’s constitution goes this one better. It prohibits cruel or unusual punishment.

A lot of jawing over something which is very ‘black and white’. The law couldn’t be more clear. And a publicly funded university like UC has to be much more transparent about their admissions data than Harvard does. If the UC is caught intentionally violating a very clear law it won’t go well for a number of people in high places in California.

They should also be looking at outcomes data, he said, which includes majors, grades, how long it took students to graduate, whether they went to graduate or professional school and even their earnings after graduation.

I don’t think UC knows grad school or earnings. Majors, grades and years-to-graduate they certainly know. Years to graduate is used in all kinds of contexts, including USNWR. It used to be that schools would be graded on percent graduating in 4 years, then at some point it briefly became 5 before ending up at 6 years. The explanation is that there may be a shortage of class seats requiring kids to delay required classes. Bullshit! I think the only reason kids are not graduating in 4 years is that they are too dumb to be in college, which they don’t realize at first, so it takes a few quarters or semesters for them to flunk out of STEM classes and econ and philosophy before ending up in grievance studies. Think of 6 years of student loans!

Charles Murray wrote that only 10 percent of kids should be in college, but that he would accept 20 percent as a compromise. 16 percent are 1 standard deviation over average at IQ 115 (and gifted is 130) I think that 16 percent should be the number to aim for. But wait, only 1 percent or so of blacks would qualify, so scratch that idea. This is why we cannot have nice things.

Public universities are not ‘controlled by’ the voters (i.e., the UC is “controlled” by a committee called the Regents), but definitely funded by the voters, and built by the voters. An even greater point of distinction. De facto Affirmative Action (aka ‘reverse discrimination’) WILL be rooted out here in California, again, once it’s exposed thanks to this lawsuit.

Wasn’t Alabama one of the states that required blacks to recite the US Constitution in order to vote?

Loath as I am to defend Alabama, this is a typically anti-white racist urban legend, of which you could stand to disabuse yourself. The strictest literacy test ever applied–which is itself the stuff of legend now–required a person seeking to register to vote to read a section of the state constitution and then explain it to the county clerk. This was itself fairly rare in practice, but it’s not rare at all on the internet in the Current Year.

When America is majority nonwhite, proportional representation will mean that universities will need to be majority nonwhite. Neither whites, nor non-whites, want to go to a majority nonwhite school, and any school that uses AA to recruit a student body that is majority nonwhite will be shooting itself in the foot (or perhaps head).

Most of America’s top universities are already majority-nonwhite.
They’re still quite popular among applicant classes.

This is the second time this week I have read a NYT article with actual reporting that includes a significant number of facts that must be uncomfortable to NYT readers (the private school article). Are they slipping?

Good point. Whites are a minority’s at most Ivy League schools already and Whites are under 41% of the students at MIT , Stanford, Johns Hopkins , Duke , etc…

whites are a minority of Public High School students today , and among children under the age of 9 Whites are a minority in America. Thus whites are already underrepresented among the top 20 universities , representing just 43% of the students when 52% of graduating seniors are white today. The number of whites graduating high school is falling , not just in percentages, the actual number of whites graduating High School is lower today than in 1980 , 1990 , 2000 and 2010.

this type of manipulation is not going to end until the university system collapses or returns to its purpose as an education facility, not a social hierarchy which it is on its way to doing.

A credentializing system like these elite universities is not just going to “collapse” on its own.

But … if we give it a shove?

One item that ought to be on the right/nationalist agenda is an alternative–and much cheaper–credentializing system. Students can learn however they like–ex. on-line courses, etc.–and get credentialized directly through testing. Have the feds accept these tested credentials and we’d be up and running.

This would have a whole bunch of benefits:
– expose the lack of actual learning in much of the non-STEM university cirriculum.
– start rolling back kids exposure to leftist indoctrination
– cull a huge amount of the college/university system, and force those people to get real jobs
– which in turn would make the leftist b.s. career path less appealling
– reduce the AA contention
– dial back the whole HS striving, must get into “good college”, “Yale or Jail” drama that makes everyone’s lives miserable, and return the focus to learning stuff
– reduce the debt load on students, making their lives better and “affordable family formation” easier
– reduce the “college tuition”–ergo cost of kids– angst among parents, increasing their fertility

Win, win, win, win, win.

The plain fact is we have lots of more options for learning now and can develop more options for assessment/credentializing now and there’s no reason everyone who’s going to do some sort of white collar work needs to trot off–expensively–to college for four years of dubious–and in some cases destructive–”education”.

(((Diane “Every-Single-Time” Klein))) and all the chancellors, presidents, admissions officers, and other worthless adminitriviators should all be forced, regardless of responsibilities to any particular campus, to telecommute from a centralized facility housed by the University of California at Merced. Let them live their dreamz and walk their talk.

I see the Mainers finally got sick of the New Hampshirites’ shit and decided to annex the place. It probably didn’t makes the news because some Jewish Negro who castrated himself scrawled Ku Kux Klam on a mosque that same day.

I’m not a recent grad, to be sure, but I will never donate to my alma mater because they actively work to displace european-Americans and traditional western culture more broadly in the USA. Their political and social activism, and their admitted efforts to favor nonwhites over whites, disqualified them from day one.

Unless Asians make it their top priority to stop the California university system from discriminating against whites and Asians, that will not happen. Even if they do it make their top priority, it probably still will not happen.

The share of the State population that is Asian is growing, but they are and will remain badly outnumbered by Mexicans and other “Latinos” in the population generally, in the college-age population, and in the electorate.

Asian voters and the remaining large but declining number of (nonHispanic) white voters in California would need a united front to have any realistic chance of accomplishing this. If they did accomplish it, it would be overturned, and “AA” discrimination against Asians and whites simply reinstated as the Hispanics grow to a larger and larger majority.

Cali now FORTY percent Hispanic, mostly nonwhite, about 38% nonHispanic white, 14% Asian, and the Hispanic and Asian populations are much younger than the white population.

“Investigators found that in this year’s entrance exams the school reduced all applicants’ first-stage test scores by 20 percent and then added at least 20 points for male applicants, except those who had failed four times.”

California has no law against university administrators thinking and strategizing about the racial demographic effects of their admission policies. What is forbidden by Proposition 209 is to racially “discriminate” which in the US law is determined based on actions, not intent. If the actions rise to a potentially illegal level then intentions might be scrutinized. Mining for discriminatory intent is an Orwellian level of analysis that is only applied in corrupt 9th Circuit rulings against the Trump administration.

Unlike Harvard, which makes no secret of its race-conscious admissions but says it does not discriminate,

Because that’s perfectly logical.

It is logical to them.

Discrimination has come to mean only actions that are unfavorable to blacks. Even natural consequences of uncivilized behavior, such as higher rates of violent crimes committed by blacks upon other blacks, is discriminatory because the outcome is unfavorable to blacks.

Following this line of thought processes, admitting students who are less qualified than students who are rejected based solely on race is not discrimination if the outcome is favorable to blacks.

Why do we allow a segment of our population, one that demonstrates inability to self reflect, to criticize us?

None of those options for learning can be used because they would harm the protected classes because of a discriminatory impact. There is no point in learning anything outside of the academy because no one is allowed to have a social network outside of these officially approved organization due to anti-discrimination law.

Sander is a pro-AA liberal, but has said that he wants the scale of it to be more limited (to avoid mismatch) and the mechanisms to be transparent.

It’s always possible he’s a crypto-conservative.

But if the “mismatch” argument is real, that’s another good argument for AA transparency. It would give the “beneficiaries” a chance to judge for themselves how deep over their heads they want to get thrown in.

I haven’t seen whether Sander has actual data to show tangible harm from the “mismatch” phenomenon. I suspect it is a very real thing in STEM and technical fields. Also, you would have to balance the danger of being in over your head against the benefit of moving up a notch or two in the prestige of your degree.

If I were an unqualified AA applicant accepted at Harvard, I would take the “mismatch” in heartbeat. With rampant grade inflation and plenty of soft classes and majors made for exactly this purpose you’d come out the other end with a super-prestigious degree and the chance to network with the elite. Money in the bank.

On the other hand, if the choice is about upgrading from Cal State to UC, I’d probably have to think about it.

Here’s an old article from the NYT that openly admits that UCLA takes race into account.

Here’s the key passage.

“Prop. 209 has made things more challenging,” he said. “It has created a new paradigm. But there are still things that can be done.” I asked him whether those things might include civil disobedience, and Taylor surprised me by replying: “Exactly when you cross over into civil disobedience is not always clear. And I probably come down on the side of pushing the outer limits. I’m much more of the attitude of, ‘So what if someone sues?’ If you lose, you at least define the line a little more clearly. You say, ‘Mea culpa,’ and you don’t do it anymore.”

Telling the truth about AA is like telling the truth about demographic replacement. If you’re a liberal, you can go ahead and praise AA for “diversifying” the universities, just as you can crow about a future of glorious minority majorityhood. But if you dare state the same facts without implying they are good, then it’s gaslighting for you.

Of course you’re right on all counts. Unfortunately, access to information about AA has become a simple matter of force. The only way to pry it out of the Universty of California’s hands is for a future Republican governor to sent armed men into Sproul Hall (Berkeley’s main admin building) to seize records.

There’s lots of good reasons there, A.D. As you mentioned the debt load, to me you were contradicting this statement, though:

A credentializing system like these elite universities is not just going to “collapse” on its own.

What can’t go on, won’t go on [/Instapundit]. Parents will eventually realize that, even if the credentialism of the Universities is still respected, having their kids accumulating a house-mortgage amount of debt for no significant gain, but a good time for 4-6 years, is not worth it. The fact that the US Feral Gov’t has been backing student loans to where the banks have nothing to lose, started this thing getting out of control. Tuition’s been rising according to what students can borrow, and universities have been hiring dipshit admins and building out their campuses accordingly.

It’s the University Bubble. It’ll pop. I wish I could say when, because it’s gonna effect me some.

What the University of California administrators do amongst themselves is not in itself an action in the scope of Proposition 209, except toward the people personally involved. Unless they conduct their meetings in blackface, insert racial slurs into the official reports, or some equally unlikely thing, there is nothing discriminatory (in any legal sense) in their activities.

If the end result of their consultations is policy that, when translated into actions concerning applicants, students, professors, employees, neighbors, alumni, or whoever else, does not pose a problem under Proposition 209, then it is hard to see how there can be a further legal issue raised by the process that led to the policy.

Sander’s lawsuit is not about this sort of hypothetical Orwellian meta-illegality based on the history of how the policies come about. He is arguing that (data are withheld because) illegal racial preferences are secretly applied in admission to some of the UCs.

This makes me want to go full falangist and give these people a real “oppressive Christmas climate.” Why are some people so determined to radicalize me?

Well, I have asked the same question myself. The best answer I know was provided the The Last Real Calvinist, and I may be wrong, but I saw that the answer, well, it was through the dark glass (or the transparent glass I see through darkly), that they believe there is no God, but they are the best servants of God, and must realize the Godless millennial of Christ – without God or Christ, of course. Hence they must be the bestest ever of humanity (cf. Corvinus). If I am wrong, The Last Real Calvinist will correct me, as he has done before.

Naturally, we recognize this as the greatest of the Protestant heresies – outdoing even Islam (can that be possible? – maybe, though conceiving the same is difficult, but doable after you wake up tomorrow and have a cup of coffee) so we cannot reason with them. These are articles of Faith for them. And we know what religious wars look like, because we know European history.

Let us hope I am wrong. And in the case of you and me as us, let us pray together that I am wrong.

But I think I am right.

I shall look for you on the battlefield, and when I see you I shall salute you, brother. I shall hope we will win the day, and the battle, and especially, the war. And then, if we have won, I shall grieve that it has come to this, because none of it will have been necessary.

As an undergrad at UC Berkeley in 2011, I waited for a meeting with an administrator in the EECS department inside her office in Cory Hall. I overheard her on the phone discussing Hispanic admission rates to the department with the clear implication that it was desirable to increase them. It seemed odd to me at the time that she was making no effort to hide what appeared to be a clear violation of Prop. 209.

Affirmation Action needs to end at all colleges. The problem is not at the college level and any college lowing standards for anyone based on race is calling that person stupid. They don’t believe a Black kid can make the grade so they lowered the standards to get into college. Actually, Black people have been making the grade and getting into colleges long before Affirmation Action so that proves it can be done. The difference was, though, those Black kids were the children of parents who had a little money and could afford to send their kids to private or parochial school. They learned something. They took college entrance exams and passed them.

I’m a 62-year old Black woman and the school system was being dumbed-down around 40′s(?) give or take a few years. By the 60′s, public schools in the inner city were already bad. My parents sent me to parochial school because they said nobody learns anything in a public school–this was back in 1960′s! I believe the public school system now is nothing but a SuperPAC for the Democratic Party.

The problem is K-12. This is where parents and teachers need to start focusing. If they won’t fix it, then these parents need to take their children out of those schools and home school them or hire someone to teach them at home. If that’s not doable, and their state has a voucher program, use that, if not, try Charter schools–ANYTHING but a public school! Nothing will change if parents are not involved. Governments and/or teachers don’t fix schools–parents do– or they find other schools for their children. Parents, especially parents in the inner cities, should be screaming for school choice! However, they’re not, they’re voting for Democrats! I’ve never been a Democrat. I only voted for one and that was Jimmy Carter and only because it was my first time voting and my dad told me to register Democrat and vote for him. Well, Carter cured me of ever voting for Democrats ever again. Between the Muriel Boat Lift, allowing the Shah of Iran to be deposed in a coup and doing nothing–he was our ally, the Hostage Crisis and the botched rescue–8 American servicemen died–I was traumatized. I believed that Democrats were dangerous and unfit to lead my country. I was right. I never voted for a Democrat again.

This month we celebrate Our Savior’s birth! So Rejoice!

Remember to keep our strong, one-of-a-kind warrior and very stable genius of a President, Donald J. Trump, our graceful and classy, FLOTUS, and their beautiful family in your prayers, always! They are a blessing!

I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Healthy, Safe and Happy New Year!

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Tiny Duck is right, If we’ve lost eastern Michigan, we’ve lost…….
TD is a retarded troll. We lost EMU and WMU before we lost UM or MSU or even Wayne State. EMU is primarily a college for teachers and social workers.

I remember when I was young how we wanted to get copies of Lolita..and I - we - read reviews of Nabokov avidly. we did not know he was Jewish..and if we did read that he was we did not have a clue what Jewish meant in the world
we were far away from the centre of things in this universe and ...

I'll agree that SRE behaved highly unethically. Her hatred for white Americans seems to be of the run-of-the-mill SJW variety: i.e., exactly the same hatred she harbors for anti-feminist, Zionist Jews like myself. As for alliances: nobody was offering one to you personally. We can only pray that ...

This is one of the stories that highlights how ineffective Republicans are at campaigning. If Trump is a problem for a potential voter you inform them of what happens when the other side gets in. Trump’s twitter outbursts are nothing compared to a Dept of Ed staffed with liberal true-believers ...

That's pretty much the received wisdom now on the left. To sum up mainstream (or at least rapidly-becoming-mainstream and no-longer-very-radical) leftist thought:
"Whiteness" is an inherently evil social construct used by people deemed white to oppress those not deemed white. Those deemed wh...

The lower-level priests and priestesses of the neo-religion are busy working out the doctrinal difficulties for us laity. "Should we allow discussion of the validity of Christ's position in the holy Trinity?" "Nah, they're too stupid and it would cause too much confusion; just burn the overly cur...

Hey, Donnelly went from being a Fordham Baldie to red head.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2018/10/12/giselle-donnelly-can-finally-be-herself/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.61c9188eeb48
I’ve known Giselle for over a decade, and I can attest she is still the same neoconse...

You'd have to go back about 100 years to reach the peak of [post-slavery] white hegemony. By the 1950s, the writing was already on the wall, although admittedly back then people still had to pay lip service to the idea that they just wanted equality and not revenge against and subjugation of whites.

We tried to save whitey
with a dose of diversity
but nothing ever works
We tried to add vibrancy
to yet another white city
but whites are still jerks
That's just the way it
Some things will never change
That's just the way it is
And don't try to relieve them
#QuarantineWhites

I looked up Icke on Wikipedia. He’s a hardcore conspiracy theorist. He believes things like reptilian beings hijacked the earth. But he only becomes beyond tha pale when he denies the Holocaust?? IMO, there’s a radical difference between a genuine conspiracy theorist and an anti-Semite. The t...

Why on earth do some American states have the age of consent as high as 18?
This is a separate question from "why does the left-wing Woody Allen get off with this sort of playing with his biological clarinet?"

Time to write its converse: it’s not OK to be white.
We declare: Whiteness is a disease akin to leprosy, herpes, HIV, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, measles, mumps, and polio. Whiteness is cancer itself, like Dr. Sontag diagnosed. It is innately evil, toxic, odious, and noxious. Whites are downright rad...

I can count the number of Woody Allen films I have bothered to see on one or two fingers. I must be an ignoramus because I just did not get it. For peak Marielle Hemingway see trashy B movie Lipstick with her older sister Margo who was amazing 40 years ago.. Hmmmm I might see if any torr.ents f...

There are a bunch of other dialect writers who were extremely popular that I find, like you, require too much brain effort to read.Oddly, if you skim text like that, although you miss details, you can understand it better than if you go though it slowly.
Somewhat related, I downloaded a 19th c...

Imagine you took a time machine back to the 50s. You told them what was going to happen over the next 6 decades.
That was the decade in which white girls were peeing in their panties at concerts where Elvis imitated a Negro. Those with foresight knew where it all would lead to.